[jsyn] Multiple output channels in Windows

[jsyn at music.columbia.edu]

Hello Ross,

 > In Windows, I can access both "halves" of my four channel output M-Audio
 > Fast Track Pro. However, again, as two individual devices, not a single
 > four channel device.

Windows MME like to access multi-channel devices as multiple stereo 
devices. This is not convenient for the reasons you mention.

If I recall correctly, you are a licensed JSyn developer. You, 
therefore, have access to the licensee page here:

http://www.softsynth.com/restricted/

On that page there is a version of JSyn that links to PortAudio using a 
  DLL. That means that you can use the latest PortAudio libraries or 
tweak your own copy.

We have included in that ZIP archive a precompiled DLL for PortAudio 
that uses MME and ASIO. ASIO provides the best support for multi-channel 
devices that appears as a single device with multiple channels.

Thank you,
Phil Burk
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jsyn at music.columbia.edu wrote:
> Hi. I'm now working in Windows with JSyn V144.
> 
> In Windows, I can access both "halves" of my four channel output M-Audio
> Fast Track Pro. However, again, as two individual devices, not a single
> four channel device.
> 
> I haven't tried multi-channel JSyn before, but it seems that to access all
> four channels of my hardware, I need to create two different
> SynthContexts. And this will create two native JSyn threads which, I'm
> guessing, cannot share information. So I can't create a single oscillator,
> and send the output of this single oscillator to all four channels at
> once. Is this correct? I'm thinking that having two parallel synthesisers
> creating the two "halves" of a surround mix would be ... difficult.
> 
> It's looking to me that I will need different output hardware to be able
> to create quadraphonic or surround JSyn applications.
> 
> Thanks in anticipation,
> 
> Ross Clement.
> 
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